Modern Name Generator

Need some quick names for your role playing game? Or a few names to expand
the details in story? The generator randomly selects from 150,000 surnames
and over 4000 female and 1200 male first names. A
browseable list is also available.

Gender:

Count:

Frequency:

Frequency Definitions

Surnames: Based on a 100K person count, very common names occur at least
10% of the time, common names are 1% and uncommon sit at 0.5%

Fore names: Very common is .1% or above, common 0.05%, and uncommon 0.01%
as defined by the U.S. distribution in 1990.

Selecting All Names randomly selects from the entire set of names.

Random Gender currenly only selects 1 gender per submission. All genders
in the return set are identical.